<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">FYI<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"Glimmer Train" <<a href="mailto:noreply@mail.glimmertrainpress.com">noreply@mail.glimmertrainpress.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">September 1, 2010 2:50:17 AM MDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"readers and writers" <<a href="mailto:MFAadvising@ucr.edu">MFAadvising@ucr.edu</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Glimmer Train - Bulletin 44</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:noreply@mail.glimmertrainpress.com">noreply@mail.glimmertrainpress.com</a><br></span></div><br><div>
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<font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="3"><strong>Upcoming
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The September <a href="http://mail.glimmertrainpress.com/sendstudionx/link.php?M=5577727&N=297&L=193&F=H" target="_blank">Fiction Open</a> closes September 30. We welcome yours. See
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Open to ALL writers. First place has gone to beginners with no previous
publications and to accomplished, established writers. All are welcome.
Word count range: 2,000 – 20,000. (Yes, a 2,000 word piece can
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First place wins $2,000 and publication in Issue 81 of <i>Glimmer Train
Stories</i>. Second- and third-place winners receive $1,000/$600 (or if
chosen for publication, $700).
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<a href="http://mail.glimmertrainpress.com/sendstudionx/link.php?M=5577727&N=297&L=252&F=H" target="_blank">Nona Caspers</a>: A few more hours after reading the story
I realized that I could stop some of my anx<img src="http://glimmertrainpress.com/images/spacer.jpg" width="1" height="1">iety by telling myself the event did not happen. I could say,
this story is not real, this did not happen, though of course I knew in
another part of me that things like that do happen… (<a href="http://mail.glimmertrainpress.com/sendstudionx/link.php?M=5577727&N=297&L=252&F=H" target="_blank">more</a>)
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<a href="http://mail.glimmertrainpress.com/sendstudionx/link.php?M=5577727&N=297&L=254&F=H" target="_blank">Ron Savage</a>: I am fairly cynical about How-To anything
and especially How-To things that have to do with writing. I would say
write every day and read every day. Read the things you like and write the
things you like. But if you are a writer you are doing that already. (<a href="http://mail.glimmertrainpress.com/sendstudionx/link.php?M=5577727&N=297&L=254&F=H" target="_blank">more</a>)
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<a href="http://mail.glimmertrainpress.com/sendstudionx/link.php?M=5577727&N=297&L=255&F=H" target="_blank">Patrick Hicks</a>: My family also helped me to understand
how seriously Colin took his<br>jo<img src="http://glimmertrainpress.com/images/spacer.jpg" width="1" height="1">b. The respect he had for the dead—how he never forgot
that families were grieving, and how he conducted his jo<img src="http://glimmertrainpress.com/images/spacer.jpg" width="1" height="1">b as though it were an act of love—now that,
<i>that</i>, was important to write about. (<a href="http://mail.glimmertrainpress.com/sendstudionx/link.php?M=5577727&N=297&L=255&F=H" target="_blank">more</a>)
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<strong>Results of the June Fiction Open:</strong>
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<a href="http://mail.glimmertrainpress.com/sendstudionx/link.php?M=5577727&N=297&L=256&F=H" target="_blank">Winners</a> and finalists have been notified, and the <a href="http://mail.glimmertrainpress.com/sendstudionx/link.php?M=5577727&N=297&L=2&F=H" target="_blank">Top-25</a> list is posted! Our thanks to all of you for
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1st place: "Ants" by Nona Caspers
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2nd place: "Insur<img src="http://glimmertrainpress.com/images/spacer.jpg" width="1" height="1">ance" by James F. Sidel
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3rd place: "Grateful, Somewhere" by S. Ruth Joffre
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